Shade roller



Sept. 2 1924.

c. c. WORDEN SHADE ROLLER Filed Jan. 26, 1924 gun 1 KW,

(ZZZ/25012 G Wbz'aem Patented Sept. 2, 1924.

PATENT OFFICE.

CLINTON C. WORDEN, OF BRIDGEPURT, CGNNECTIOUT.

SHADE ROLLER.

Application filed January 26. 1924:.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that CLINTON G. Wonnnn, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairchild and State of Connecticut, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade Rollers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a shade roller, and an object of the invention is to provide an eflicient shade roller of novel and eX tremely simple and economic construction.

A more specific object is to provide a device of the present character the head or end pieces of which will each consist of a hub and an end plate associated in unique and simple manner.

A further specific object is to provide head or end pieces each consisting of but two metallic elements, a hub and end plate associated in a manner to furnish an annular groove defined by the hub and end plate, into which grooves the opposite ends of the barrel of the shade roller are adapted to be rolled.

And a still further object is to construct one of said hubs to receive ordinary or preferred mechanism adapted to be employed in connection with the shaft of the shade roller for allowing the barrel thereof to rotate or to lock said barrel in any desired position of adjustment, and to provide the other hub with threads about and into which an end portion of the usual coil or helical spring can be fitted toattach said spring end to rotate with the barrel, the opposite end of said spring being secured to the shaft.

With the above objects in view, as well as others which will become obvious as the specification proceeds, the invention comprises the construction, arrangement and combination of parts as now to be fully described and as hereinafter to be specifically claimed it being understood that the disclosure herein is merely illustrative of the principles of the invention, changes in details of construction and arrangement of parts being permissible so long as within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification,

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a shade roller in which the features of the invention are incorporated, hanger mem- Serial No. 688,667.

aers supporting the shade roller being shown in elevation;

Pg. 2 is a sectional. view detailing the hub and e .d plate of the head or end piece at the left hand end the shade roller of Fig. 1;

1* 1g. 3 is a sectional view detailing the hub and end plate of the head or end piece at the right hand end of the shade roller of Fig. 1, showing the manner in which the barrel end is rolled into the annuiar groove defined by said hub and end plate; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line t-ei of Fig. 1.

In said drawing, 10 denotes a shade roller shaft having its opposite ends mounted in hanger members 11 and 12, one of said shaft ends being fixed against rotation in its hanger member in customary fashion.

A head or end piece indicated by 13 mounted upon the left hand end portion of the shaft 10 adjacent the hanger member 11 consists of a hub 1d and an end plate 15, and a head or end piece indicated by 16 mounted upon the right hand end portion of said shaft adjacent the hanger member 12 consists of a hub 17 and an end plate 18.

The hubs 1 1 and 17 are similar in certain respects. As denoted, each has a preferably flat outer face, denoted by 19, against which an end plate is adapted to be fitted, and each has a desirably cylindrical extension or protuberance, denoted by 20, adapted to fit an opening 21 at the center of each plate, the extensions or protuberances being arranged in the openings and having their outer portions 22 upset to rigidly fasten said end plates to said hubs. That is to say, the extensions or protuberances 20, in fact, serve as rivets for securing the end plates to the hubs, the material of said extensions or protuberances being first fitted into the openings in assembling the two parts of each head or end piece of the shade roller, and the outer portions 22 being then upset to cause the margin of each outer portion to have pressing engagement with the outer face of each end plate adjacent its openin Also each hub 14 and 17 is cut away as denoted at 23 to provide an annular groove defined by a hub and end plate and adapted to receive an end portion of the barrel, denoted by 24. Said barrel preferably consists of a single strip of metal curled to cylindrical form, the opposite end portions of said cylinder being rolled in said annular groove 28 as indicated very clearly at 25. Naturally, the barrel is thus fined to the head or end pieces and Will rotate With the same when they are rotated.

In respects other than those described, the head or end pieces are different. The hub 17 as disclosed has concavities 26 with holes 27 at the bases of the concavities and leading to the axis of said hub, 28 denoting pins in said holes adapted to engage the shaft 10 and having heads 29 in said concavities, As will be more clear from Fig. 3, the shaft is cut away as at 30 to co-operate h the pins in usual manner to allow the barrel to rotate when this is desirable, or to loch said barrel in any desired position tstiuent. The barrel 2i comprises means limiting outward movement of the pins.

The hub l4 has a threaded and slightly reduced end portion 31 opposite the protuliierance 20 about and into which an end portion 32 of the ordinary coil or helical spring 33 is fastened, said spring being arranged about the shaft 10 and having its oppositeend secured to said shaft in any convenient manner as at 84.

The simplicity of the construction is apparent. Each head or end piece consists of but tWo pieces of metal, one having means for riveting the other to it.

Provision is made when constructing the hubs for providing annular grooves into which the apposite ends of the-barrel can be fitted. The hub 14 has an improved arrangement for holding an end of the coil or helical spring, no extra parts being necessary. The hub 17 contains in a practical Way the locking and adjusting mechanism of the shade roller. When the parts of the shade roller are assembled, a single constructional unit is produced. To set the roller up for use all that is necessary is to space the hanger members at proper distance apart to allow insertion between them of the full length of the shade roller. The head or end pieces can be very economically The Whole construction is practogether providing a groove into Which an s end of the barrel of said shade roller can be rolled.

2. in a shade roller, a shaft, spaced apart pieces on said shaft, a barrel having its opposite ends rolled into annular grooves in saidfhead pieces, whereby said barrel is secured to said head pieces, and a spring secured to one of said head pieces and to said shaft, the head piece with spring having threads into which said spring is fastened. V

3'. The combination as specified in claim 2, wherein each head, piece consists of a hub and an end plate, each hub having an integral rivet for securing an end plate to it, and each hub and end plate together providing annular groove into Which an end of the barrel is rolled.

Signed at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, this 25th day of January, A. D.,'192 l. V

CLINTON C. WORDEN.

lVitnesses:

C. M. NEUMAN, LI'LLIAN-M. ALLiN'G. 

